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Monday, September 22, 2014

The Huge Lawsuit That Could Take Down Common Core for Good

Gretchen Logue and Anne Gassel, anti-Common Core activists from the
Missouri Coalition Against Common Core have joined together with Fred
N.Saur, a former Republican candidate to file a lawsuit against Gov. Jay
Nixon to stop taxpayer dollars from being used to fund the Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium.

The SBAC is one of two organizations responsible for creating tests that are aligned with the standards set forth in Common Core. This lawsuit could take it down, and “Common Core” with it, for good.

In the lawsuit, the group alleges that the SBAC is “an unconstitutional interstate compact
that was not approved by Congress, in violation of the Compact Clause
of the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 3, Clause 10.” Logue and
Gassel also accuse Gov. Nixon’s support and conduct in committing the
state of Missouri to the adoption of Common Core standards of violating
many state and federal statutes.
According to Breitbart,
a petition for the lawsuit outlines several grievances they believe the
Missouri state government is guilty of by participating in Common Core.

“…Since 2009, Governor Nixon and Commissioner Nicastro have engaged
in a course of conduct that would have ceded Missouri’s sovereignty over
educational policy within its borders to SBAC, an interstate consortium
operating under the influence of federal regulators located in
Washington, DC. Congress never sanctioned the interstate compact that
created this consortium.

The Missouri legislature, responding to Missouri voters, largely
repudiated the work of this consortium by enacting HB 1490 in 2014 by
massive veto-proof margins. Notwithstanding this legislative action,
Missouri is poised to contribute millions of dollars of taxpayer funds
during Fiscal Year 2015 to support this illegal interstate compact……

Since 2009, Governor Nixon and Commissioner Nicastro have engaged in a
course of conduct that would have ceded Missouri’s sovereignty over
educational policy within its borders to SBAC, an interstate consortium
operating under the influence of federal regulators located in
Washington, DC. Congress never sanctioned the interstate compact that
created this consortium.

The Missouri legislature, responding to Missouri voters, largely
repudiated the work of this consortium by enacting HB 1490 in 2014 by
massive veto-proof margins. Notwithstanding this legislative action,
Missouri is poised to contribute millions of dollars of taxpayer funds
during Fiscal Year 2015 to support this illegal interstate compact…”

The ultimate goal of the lawsuit is to wake up states to the reality
that groups like SBAC, which have not been approved by Congress, have no
legally binding authority and the groups are actually null and void.
This is fantastic.

Common Core standards are just another tool the government is using
to further monopolize education for the government and get closer to
creating a national curriculum.

Parents need to put maximum effort into opposing Common Core
and push the federal government further out of education, allowing
parents and local communities to have control over how schools are ran
and what students are taught. Fortunately, a number of states have woken
up to the reality of how horrible Common Core is and have already opted out of the standards. Hopefully more will follow suit.

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